Dissociative disorders- exam 2

Question 1

what are dissociative disorders

Answer 1

Disruption in the normal integration of consciousness, memory, identity, emotion, body represntation, motor control, and percption of the environment
- positive dissociative symptoms and negative dissociative symptoms
- occur frequently after trauma/stressor
- disorded if causes distress, impairment, or help seeking behaviors

Question 2

what are positive and negative dissociative symptoms

Answer 2

Positive dissociative symptoms:
- unbidden intrusions into awareness and behaviors
- loss of continuity in subjective experience (fragmentation of identity, depersonalization, derealization)
Negative dissociative symptoms:
- inability to access info (amnesia)

Question 3

what is dissociative amnesia

Answer 3

• inablility to recall important personal info (autobigrophical) (usually traumatic or stressful) beyind usual forgetfullness
• selective memory impairment for: specific ecents or generalized
• no other cognitive defects, not related to injury, etc.

Question 4

what is dissociative fugue

Answer 4

• sudden and unexpected travel away from home or customary work place
• inability to recall ones past
• confusion about personal identity or assumption of a new identity

Question 5

what is dissociative identity disorder

Answer 5

• 2 or more distinct personality states
• directly observed
• if not directly observed, the presence of: 1) discontinities in sense of self; no control 2) recurrent dissociatice amnesia

Question 6

what dissociative disorder is the most rare

Answer 6

Dissociative Fugue

Question 7

who was Anna O. and what was the ‘talking cure’

Question 8

what characterisitics and backgrounds are typical for people with DID

Question 9

What is the major paradigm and treatment for DID

Question 10

Who was Chris Sizemore